Basin Management Action Plans
To accelerate progress toward achieving restoration targets in BMAP areas, the Blue-Green Algae Task Force recommended a more strategic approach to project selection, implementation and monitoring.
Click on each recommendation below to learn about state actions taken to address it.
Recommendations
- Prioritization of siting, design and funding for treatment infrastructure to reduce damaging discharges to the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie Estuaries while achieving TMDLs and Numeric Nutrient Criteria.
- Incorporation of rapidly changing demographics and alterations in land use, where possible, into the BMAP process.
- Acknowledgement in BMAPs of the nutrient reductions needed to be protective of downstream water bodies. Identification of TN reductions for Lake Okeechobee necessary to protect the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie River estuaries.
- Establishment of a TP TMDL, TN TMDL and BMAP for the Upper St. Johns River basin.
- Accounting for the loading contribution of legacy nutrients, in the Lake Okeechobee, Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie River and Estuary BMAPs while accelerating and prioritizing projects with demonstrated potential to expedite legacy nutrient removal.
- Identification and prioritization of spatially focused projects in areas likely to yield maximum pollutant reduction in all BMAP areas.
- Conducting integrated monitoring and modeling of implemented BMAP projects to ensure that projects are working as expected and allow for adjustments to be made if necessary.